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Reducing Wildfire Risk in the Wildland-Urban Interface: Policy, Trends, and Solutions

Increasing home development in wildfire-prone areas, coupled with climate change, are exacerbating wildfire risks to many communities. Better land use planning can work with other mitigation measures to reduce wildfire risks to people and homes. There are a variety of land use planning tools available, such as community plans, regulations, building codes, and incentive-based programs, to better manage development in the wildland-urban interface (WUI) and other high-wildfire-risk areas. The Community Planning Assistance for Wildfire (CPAW) program provides communities with resources and services to mitigate wildfire risks through improved land use planning.

K. Barrett. Reducing Wildfire Risk in the Wildland-Urban Interface: Policy, Trends, and Solutions. 55 IDAHO L. REV. 3 (2019).

Posted by:
Gloria Edwards
Published on:
June 10, 2020

Categories: Publication, Research Brief/Synthesis, Technical ReportTags: community planning, fire behavior modeling, fire data, fire ecology and effects, fire return interval, fire technology, firefighting, forest fire, land use planning, wildfire, wildfire behavior, wildfire frequency, wildfire hazard, wildfire intensity, Wildfire Operations & Management, wildfire preparation, wildfire prevention, wildfire risk assessment, wildfire risk mitigation, wildfire risk reduction, wildfire safety zone, wildfire severity, wildfire susceptibility, Wildland, wildland urban interface

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